194 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1773- 



The DUKE of LEEDS is a title covering both the 

 Duke abused by ' Louse ' Pigott (and already dealt 

 with) and his son and successor (born 1775, died 

 1838), who is in the list of members of the Jockey 

 Club for 1835, and had no doubt been a member for 

 some years, as he won the St. Leger with Octavian as 

 early as 1810. A curious story is told of Octavian 

 (by Stripling), to the effect that the Duke purchased 

 the animal ' when a foal with its dam, from one of his 

 own tenants, having taken a fancy to it while following 

 its dam in the plough.' This looks as if the Duke must 

 have had a pretty good eye for a horse ; and the pre- 

 valence of a ' horsey ' strain in his blood may be in- 

 ferred from the fact that a Lord Carmarthen ran Spot 

 at York in 1722. 



The DUKE of PORTLAND, again, is a title covering 

 both the third Duke (already treated of) and the 

 fourth, who succeeded in 1809 and died in 1854, and 

 who, as Marquess of Titchfield, ran Viret for a Jockey 

 Club Plate in 1796. It was he who won the Derby 

 in 1819 with Tiresias, who was instrumental (in 1827) 

 in establishing the right of the Jockey Club to ' warn 

 off' people from Newmarket Heath, who advanced 

 funds to the Jockey Club in 1831, and who, above all, 

 was the father of the celebrated Lord George Ben- 

 tinck. 



The DUKE of EICHMOND is a title covering two 

 (and perhaps three) personages, the third Duke (who 

 has already been dealt with, though he lived to 1806, 



